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Metro: Last Light Redux, Saints Row 2, Saints Row: The Third, and both Darksiders & Darksiders 2 are now available on the new DRM-Free platform GOG Galaxy which is host to over 1,000 games, runs sales often, and now supports matchmaking, game time tracking, achievements, friends / chat functions (all optional), and more. What’s more these games are all available at a discount. These are some pretty excellent games, have a worthy offering for replay value, and are now being sold dirt cheap for a limited time.

Saints Row: The Third – The Full Package is available for 67% off making it $4.99

Darksiders is currently 60% off with a price of $7.99

Darksiders 2 is 60% off going for $11.99

Darksiders 2 – Complete DLC Pack is also 60% off at $7.99

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This game will have you thinking WipEout off the bat, but it’s actually the spiritual successor to Nitronic Rush and sees players participating in a new experience built from the ground up in which landing tricks keeps a tron-like road runner car from overheating.

Visuals feature a lot of neon lights contrasted by calm and cool darkness, with Sprint mode being an obvious dash to the finish, Reverse Tag mode putting a test to your ultimate “NOT IT” skills, and all with multiplayer support. Players can jump, rotate, and fly while avoiding obstacles. Currently the game is in Early Beta for the PlayStation 4 and is available on purchase through the official development studio’s link below on PC.

Take a look below at the footage released over the past months as an official PS4 release is awaited.

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Patriots Win The Super Bowl

– Madden 15 by EA Games Makes Bold Prediction:

Electronic Arts in association with EA Sports released a new statement today to the press saying that the New England Patriots have won the Super Bowl against the Seattle Seahawks in a video game simulation traditionally done by EA Sports as a sort of litmus test for the game engine’s accuracy to real sporting variables. Only time will tell if this rings true in real life.

Here’s an excerpt from the Official Press Release with more information:

“The prediction sees New England’s offense overcoming the Seahawks’ defense to pull out a 28-24 victory. Tom Brady was named MVP of the game thanks to his 335 yard, 4-touchdown performance, his third such honor.

The Madden NFL 15 Super Bowl Prediction is created by simulating the Super Bowl Matchup with updated rosters on Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft and the official game console of the NFL. Fans can get more exclusive EA SPORTS content from Super Bowl week by following Madden NFLon Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat (easports) and using the hashtag #UltimateSB.”

Source: Official EA Press Release

*All player participation has been facilitated by NFL Players Inc., the licensing and marketing subsidiary of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA).

OFFICIAL HD VIDEO BELOW:

PlayStation TV (AKA Vita TV) Discounted to $60

The PlayStation TV, PSTV, VitaTV, or whatever you want to call Sony’s micro-console / streaming device capable of providing PS Now, PS One Classic, PS Vita, and in-home streamed PS4 content (console required), all under the guise of also being another “Netflix machine” for consumers to gobble up has now gone on discount. Best Buy offered the sale first, both online and in-store for a device that debuted at $99 and steeply fell to $79 during the holiday season.

Now we see the device dropped to just $59 to which users have responded by spreading the news. It remains to be seen how many will actually buy though. Amazon has matched this price, now listing the PlayStation TV for $59.99 as well. The bundle which comes with a controller is now available for $99.00 even.

As Sony struggles to generate interest in the Vita library, many own Vita handhelds and are extremely pleased with their gaming experiences on the device. PSTV getting into more homes is a good sign that if Sony would have offered a more desirable price from the jump, such as Nintendo is attempting to do with the Nintendo New 3DS XL, then more people would have bit. We can probably expect to see a Vita price drop soon after this recent happening comes to pass.

Virtual Reality Gaming PC Architecture is Here

SLI 3.0 is coming out and it’s called VR SLI because it’s for VR Gear such as Oculus Rift. Instead of using multiple GPUs to render a single image, each graphics card renders for a separate eye. Beyond that, if the user has a Quad VR SLI set up then a sick immerse experience is guaranteed.

The GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970 themselves even already include revolutionary new technologies that make Maxwell GPUs the best choice for smooth, responsive, nausea-free Virtual Reality Gaming Experiences according to NVIDA.

Last Day For FREE GTA Game w/ GTA V PC Pre-Order

Pre-Order GTA V on Steam for Windows PC and you’ll get GTA San Andreas for free. This will run you $59.99 but you’ll have access day one to the game everybody’s been waiting for on Steam. Modding communities are already in place to rock the tarnish off of this game’s excessively big open world engine and hopefully GTA Online will be able to really flourish with the great online community of PC Gaming.

Starbound Gets Huge Update

If you’ve never heard of Starbound for PC, it’s a crazy good indie title that reminds most people of Terraria except with space exploration, many different planets, resource management, and more. Today they’ve announced access is available as cheap as $11.24 for a limited time as a huge update has hit the game with new quests, items, ships, monsters, a new playable race, new missions, and more. We’ve been working on a Preview for this title as its passed through countless Beta tests, server wipes, and that Preview is still forthcoming – but if you have a spare twelve dollars in your lint pocket and need to escape to another reality truly based on interesting 2D Gameplay then Check It Out HERE On Steam.

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The conclusion to the Anomaly series is upon us as Anomaly defenders has been given an official release date (May 29, 2014 on Steam) as well as a new video showcasing tactics players will need to utilize in order to keep an invasion of human enemies at bay. The full title will launch for $9.99 and can also be pre-ordered at Games Republic for $8.99 with no DRM for those who are still haven’t “got with the program” (*Neo of The Matrix face). 😀

Anomaly Defenders is the culmination of well-known Tower Defense franchise Anomaly developed and published independently by 11 Bit Studios and is compatible with Windows PC, Mac OS X, as well as Linux operating systems.

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Developer MAXIS and publisher EA Games have had essentially a train wreck of a time dropping the new SimCity on the world and have finally buckled under pressure by announcing that an offline mode will be added to the game when Update 10 goes live. Players will have to start all over again in this offline mode but many have not even bought the game because of its absence while others have found the online game broken and unplayable due to the oh-so-famous EA’s inability to produce smooth online gaming (just look at Battlefield 4’s million patches and Ex-DICE members speaking out to tell the world that the blame belongs on EA’s shoulders for the game’s instability and online crashes).

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The reason why I’m writing this for your viewing pleasure is to discuss how most problems within the gaming industry are caused by money and time. When you go pick up next-gen games or consoles you’ll either have fun or be completely blind sided on what you were promised with the system. Each corporation like Sony or Microsoft either lied to the gamers, had to switch something up for the consumers, (i.e. DRM, Always online, etc.), or have been in the very least misleading about the details of the features they are able to provide.

With each of these in mind I found it interesting how Sony never gave a straight answer about DRM for third party games unlike Microsoft’s heavily criticized direct approach which was later shot down and reversed. For the most part it has become the thorn in Xbox ONE’s side and presented us with perhaps the most hated console of all time since the Sony PS3.

At least Microsoft was giving us a heads-up to the gaming community about the future direction third party wanted them to head in, even if without the reasons behind it. Instead Sony and third party companies like EA took the path of pretending they never planned on doing any sort of DRM in the first place. As if Microsoft just magically came up with this all by themselves and it wasn’t in demand from these same companies that we’ve seen nickel and dime us to protect their own investments whilst trying everything to kill used game sales which they call loss of potential profits.

Sony has said in a lot of interviews about online passes that most Publishers like Ubisoft or EA used in the past, that this technology is still available to third party on the PlayStation 4 if they want to use it. Sony will not use it on first party games according to new promises post-E3 2013. Well not anymore, this is now the reason why when the consoles got announced these head Publishers wanted DRM on all the games that were made so they can could make more money and not get less when someone bought a pre-owned copy of said software.

This works in as well with the schemes of never-ending DLC, incomplete games, day one patches, pre-order bonuses with each different retailer because of promotional partnerships and deals. In many cases Capcom has been caught having most of their DLC already on the disc itself and making us gamers buy a code to unlock it just to use a skin for a character.

With most companies that circle around themselves trying to figure out how to save or make money with either making a console with cheap hardware and it breaks after the first 30 minutes of playing, the game industry is beginning to make everyone mad which includes myself.

I can’t trust Microsoft because of changing policies that could easily be changed back whenever they or third party companies want them to. With Sony being shady and acting like everyone’s best friend meanwhile assuring us that third party will be in charge of DRM in many interviews, you’d be a fool to trust them either. Keeping all of this in mind, we as gamers spend a lot of money for this kind of entertainment because we love it but we keep dealing with the same problems that we always encounter with the big heads of Sony, Microsoft, and all the other Publishers, but these problems are getting worse and the endgame may soon be in sight.

Keep in mind that developers really don’t have a say what goes into their game in the long run because of what I said before with pre-order, promoting, and online pass decisions being made from the top-down at publisher companies and even sometimes higher than that at their parent companies. It’s easy for me to tell you today that trusting these companies is hard for me with everything coming out into the light about both Sony and Microsoft and the persisting promise to third party that they cause DRM any time they want. Developers of games seem to never be able to give us what they promise these days whether it be blamed on cut backs, time, money, or whatever the case might be.

We keep getting incomplete games like Forza Motorsport 5 which has less than half as many cars and tracks as Forza Motorsport 4, still being sold at full $60 price, and will end up costing over $200 by the time DLC is done releasing for it. The attack of the Season Passes never ends either as your friends leave you behind in isolation if you choose not to pay beyond $60 for a single experience.

How do you readers feel when everything that comes to be in an half-finished product? Do you feel like you were promised more and never got your money’s worth? Let me know just one thing, can you honestly say that you trust the game industry in 2013? Comment down below and keep it clean!

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– Top News of the Day
– Yoshida Reveals PS4 Games Might Write / Erase 50GB Games While Playing via Update
– PlayStation 4 Has Automatic Caching, No Installs Needed
– COD: Ghosts Might Not Play Without Internet Connection
– Next-Gen Game Installs Are Huge, File Sizes Average Ranging 20 – 40GB Installs
– Every Xbox ONE Game Must Be Installed, Console Not Designed To Run Games Off Disc
– Xbox ONE Mandatory Install Sizes For Over 12 Games
– Killer Instinct Is Barely A Game – 3.4GB, No Arcade Mode, 8 Characters
– Half of Forza Motorsports 5 Tracks Were Cut
– PS4 Virtual Headset Details Coming to RealGamerNewz.com Soon
– And More

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Lexis Numérique is a developer that has put forth games achieving awards as well as over 9 million copies sold worldwide (via publishing partnerships with companies like Namco Bandai Games, Ubisoft, and more). Today you will be able to reserve a copy of their latest project which is titled Taxi Journey and will likely be released on Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii U, PlayStation 3, and Windows PC if its goal of $130,000 can be reached before October 12, 2013. Having already achieved $13,205 worth of pledges in just 3 days, the game is off to a good start but will need a lot more of a push from would-be backers. Check out the full Kickstarter Listing here which describes the game as a unique puzzle / adventure platformer that will be released DRM-free if funded and completed successfully.

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RealGamerNewz.com is the next-generation video game news and reviews website responsible for hosting the only uncensored gaming media on the net!

In the following show I bring my expertise from over 22 years of gaming and authoring over 3,000 living online documents detailing the international video games industry to the table and touch on some risky topics. I speak about my opinions and divulge many pieces of information that a lot of reporters in this industry might be scared to release, and a lot of gamers might be too stubborn to believe.

Some of the topics I’ll touch on in this show include the industry’s push for DRM, and why it exists in the first place. While many gamers believe that DRM exists to rob them of their rights, the facts are plain to see. Game companies are closing down all around us, and while no game company can successfully prove that used games or piracy are causing this (because they are not the only factor) blocking these actions to some extent is meant to be a temporary band-aid fix to the suffering the industry is going through which can only be blamed on a huge list of many factors, not one single factor such as used games.

The trend of gamers taking their experiences in military shooters to unrealistic levels by enlisting based on their skills in a video game is also discussed, with much thanks and respect given to our real life troops and veterans. Reality and fantasy should never be mixed in this way. The importance of Dedicated Servers in First Person Shooters and the foolishness of turning your back on a brand because of a mainstream agenda are highlighted while marketing campaigns from some of the top First Person Shooters in the video games industry are analyzed. I look forward to the feedback of my fans, peers, and critics, and thank you in advance for the time you spent reading and watching this piece.

“I’m Racist… Against Stupid People” featuring Jon Ireson AKA Hitman0769 – Gamer for over 22 years and author of over 3,000 living online documents detailing the international video games industry.

TOPICS INCLUDE

#1 – Battlefield 4’s Marketing Campaign Is A Complete Joke; DICE is Laughing At You

#2 – Call Of Duty Fans That Buy PS4 Are Foolish

#3 – FPS Games Are Not Realistic And Have Nothing To Do With Real Life Army Experience

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Everybody out there who wants to be able to import their physical video games from other countries, you are in luck. Microsoft has announced that the Xbox ONE next-gen gaming console will play any country’s video games in its system. This means if you are in India, United States, Europe, Australia, or anywhere else for that matter – you’ll be able to import video games from your friends or import retailers like PlayAsia to play games early when release dates allow for it, play uncensored games from the bloody Americas, or even play games that have been completely banned in your country. Long live the cause of the gamers.

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Over 200 Gamestop locations being closing this month, Gamestop is about to lose a fraud lawsuit, a lot of pre-orders have been killed off, and just what exactly is going on behind the scenes with the whole DRM versus used games scandal? Find out in this afternoon’s RGN Business Podcast part 2 featuring stories sourced off of Forbes amongst others.

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Welcome to a new segment here at RealGamerNewz which will help throw some shine on a few incredible games every once in a while which may have been missed in the sea of commotion surrounding the AAA next-gen titles heading to Sony’s PS4. In the following clip you will see some gameplay from PlayStation 4 indie titles including Transistor and Contrast, as well as more. Be sure to be on the lookout for more PS4 Indie Game Spotlight posts in the future, and until then; it’s Mitchy F Walters Baby!

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